Letters to the editor

My apologies to my local news paper. I spoke too hastily when I said they didn’t publish my letter. Today, they published it. Well, that was rather nice. Now to see what comes of it.

School is on its way, oh no!

School is getting ever closer. I have officially started the psyching out process (getting in the mood for school everyday if you understand). This quarter, I will take Beginning Weight Training, Math 124 (Calculus I), Accounting 210 (principles of accounting I), and an all online Shakespeare English class (I forget the number). All you students out there about to start school and who don’t mind sharing, what are you taking?

I know this isn’t much of a post, but I am working on Love Marriage and Courtship Part Two, so that will probably be my next big post. We will take a look at Scripture for some guidance. If anyone has some suggestions (other than Song of Solomon), let me know.

Blogging

I really have some very lame excuses for not blogging in a long time. If you don’t want to hear them, then skip the next paragraph.

After school ended, I got sick and that was definitely no fun. Once I got better, Christmas was in full swing. We had concerts (some of which I played in), caroling, gift buying, decorating, etc. So now I will start school again on the 2nd of January and I think my whole break is almost over. Bummer. Well, time to update the old blog.

I will continue talking about love marriage and courtship because there are tons of things to be said on that topic (like parental involvment. Thank you evilmrglitch), but for now I want to switch gears for a moment. In our local pseudo-news paper there was a letter published about atheists attempting to remove any vestige of a Christian Christmas from the public square viz. the ACLU or the like. Someone then replied to this person, trying, I think, to disprove the other writer’s claims. However, he did a very poor job of it and really missed the point of the argument. I don’t know why our news paper stoops to publish such slop. Anyway, I sent a letter in response to this and needless to say, it was not published. Go figure. Here is my letter for your reading:

As a college student, I am really amazed by how the writer of this letter missed the point of the debate. Sure there are other religions presented on the walls of the Supreme Court, but the point was that religion, not atheism, was recognized as the foundation for our laws. How can atheism, which can only get its morals from the individual, be the foundation for any nation? Look at the failure of the countries that embraced it.
Sadly, the writer also attempts to diminish the influence that Christianity and religion had in the forming of this nation. Even Franklin and Jefferson were deists, not atheists. Most of the others were more than deists. One, John Witherspoon, was even a Presbyterian minister. George Washington, who was a praying man, stated in his first inaugural address, “…it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect, that His benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the people of the United States a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge.” This does not sound like the ACLU’s separation of church and state.